Dr. Inna Shtakser graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Since then she taught at The University of Texas at Austin, at Dalhousie University (NS, Canada), at the Apeejay Stya University (India), and at Tel-Aviv University. Her book titled The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale: Poverty, Work, Community and the Transformation of Identity during the 1905-1907 Russian Revolution was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Her published articles deal with cultural history of Jewish working-class radicalism in the Russian empire and with self-defense against the pogroms. At the moment she is working on a manuscript dealing with anarchist groups in Odessa before WWI.